Did Ethiopia Survive Coloniality

Eurocentric colonial interpretations of Ethiopian history; Struggle against territorial colonialism; The three unique historical aspects of Ethiopia; Challenges of modernization; Did Ethiopia Avoid Colonialism

Bibliographic Data

ID22355368
AuthorsYerasework Kebede Hailu (University of South Africa, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume2
Issue2
Publication date2021-09-07
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Decolonising Disciplines (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2664-3308 • E-ISSN: 2664-3405
PublisherUniversity of Pretoria - ESI Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.35293/jdd.v2i2.18
OpenAlexW3197248915
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited17

What is unique about Ethiopia is, the history of survived colonial conquest. The Ethiopian patriotic forces defeated Italian army at the Battle of Adowa in 1896. Ethiopia has a long history of voluntarily pushing modernisation in the context of development. The major drive of modernization aimed at transforming Ethiopia from feudal ‘traditional’ society to ‘modern’ society. Hence, Ethiopia has been in-charge of its development trajectory, compared to other colonised Africans. Ironically, alike other African countries Ethiopia is still struggling with challenges of development. This is historical, an interpretive and conceptual study, executed in thematic terms. Theoretically, the study predicated on decolonial epistemic perspective, that articulates application of modernization to development, as its units of analysis. The findings indicate the need for epistimic decolonization to avoid the invasion of cognitive empire with its modernist influences of civilisation and development

Ancient history · Archaeology · Battle · Civilization · Colonialism · Decolonization · Empire · Modernization theory · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African history and culture analysis · History · Law

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